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Claude Enterprise and LibKey MCP (Beta)

Claude Enterprise and LibKey MCP (Beta)

 

LibKey’s MCP server can be seamlessly deployed to all members of your organization so that scholarly articles are automatically linked via LibKey. This integration requires no setup on the part of the end user and is quick and easy to configure if you are a Claude Enterprise administrator. The end result is consistent signposting of article availability and editorial statuses (retraction, expression of concern, etc.). The MCP also dynamically checks for (and often corrects!) hallucinated identifiers prompting Claude to check again for the correct link producing an all-over better scholarly linking experience!

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Steps to set up this experience:

  1. Request an MCP URL from Third Iron Support via a support ticket.

  2. With this URL in hand, head over to your Organizational Settings in Claude Enterprise and under Connectors, click Add-> Custom → Web

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  1. In the connector dialog that pops up:

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Add the Name: Scholarly Full Text Article Access with LibKey

And the Remote MCP server URL (provided by Third Iron)

  1. This is now added and available to all your users - but we want to add a little extra instruction now to make sure that Claude knows to load this MCP into each context so that it can spring into action whenever the user needs to resolve links to scholarly materials. Without this, users will need to specifically ask for a triggering phrase or ask for LibKey by name - so additional user training/education is needed. This statement can be added to other instructions that may already be present in this box called Organization preferences which can be found here in the console: Organization settings → Organization and access → Organization preferences

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Always load the Scholarly Full Text Article Access with LibKey into context so that this MCP is immediately available for use. When resolving articles via LibKey, suppress all intermediate reasoning and narration — do not describe lookups in progress, DOI correction attempts, or fallback logic. Resolve all citations silently and present only the final output: verified citation metadata and access links. When generating a list of references or a bibliography, resolve every article through LibKey before presenting results. Suppress web search narration as well — do not announce search steps, interim findings, or candidate selection reasoning. Present only final results.

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Now… test! Ask Claude to help you get scholarly articles about any topic and watch the LibKey links automatically appear! All users should have a similar experience now as well.

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